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Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus identifies and binds neuropilin-1 on human cells to infect them – News-Medical.Net
Helping to explain what makes SARS-CoV-2 so capable of infecting human cells, researchers in two independent studies discovered that the virus’s spike protein recognizes…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 21 2020
Helping to explain what makes SARS-CoV-2 so capable of infecting human cells, researchers in two independent studies discovered that the virus’s spike protein recognizes and binds a protein on the human cell surface called neuropilin-1.
This facilitates its ability to enter and infect cells, they suggest. Demonstrating a potential anti-viral treatment, the findings of both studies also describe how the virus’s ability to infect human cells through neuropilin-1…
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